Back out smc91x late collision "performance" hack.
Apparantly, the reason for this change is that it gives "much less NFS stalls with a SMC91C96 on a 10/100MB switch." Alan Cox's comments on this is: "spec says 16 collision retries max _ever_. I bet his 'broken switch' is a case of half v full duplex" and a recommendation to remove it. Also, since the change does not limit the number of times we may retry to send the packet, I think this code opens a potential DoS attack against network which has a machine connected running this code.
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